The world’s UFO hotspots are revealed – as Pentagon chief admits hundreds of mysterious objects have been spotted ‘all over the world’

The US government is notoriously secretive when it comes to sharing its knowledge about extraterrestrial life.

But in a possible push for transparency, the Department of Defense released a new document revealing the “UFO hotspots in the world.”

It includes a map showing where most sightings of unidentified objects have been recorded, based on reports between 1996 and 2023.

The map comes shortly after a Pentagon chief admitted that hundreds of mysterious objects have been sighted “around the world.”

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), said, “We’re seeing these[‘metal spheres’]around the world, and we’re seeing these perform very interesting apparent maneuvers.”

The map shows that Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan, the east and west coasts of the US, including California, and parts of the Middle East are all hotspots for UFO sightings.

Revealing that Japan and a region in the Middle East — including Iraq and Syria — are UFO hotspots may surprise enthusiasts who often associate sightings with the US.

In particular, the map identifies a region in the country’s southwest, which includes the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima — famously the targets of US nuclear strikes in 1945.

Another Japanese hot spot is the small community of Iinomachi in Fukushima Prefecture, also known as “UFO Town.”

Iinomachi is adorned with alien-themed decorations in an effort to attract fans and promote itself as a “home for aliens.”

It is also the base of a research institute called the International UFO Lab, opening in 2021 and headed by alien enthusiast Takeharu Mikami.

In June this year, the International UFO Lab released six images of ‘probable UFOs’ Japanese times reported, made in Kobe and Fukushima, among others.

They were narrowed down to a total of 494 reports it received in one year from people in Japan and abroad, though most of them seemed to be about drones, birds or just reflections.

The U.S. government map is included in a five-page document called “UAP Reporting Trends,” published on the new website of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)a special UFO department that was set up last July.

The website will provide the public with information about AARO and its “efforts to understand and resolve unidentified anomalous phenomena.”

“This website will provide information, including photos and videos, on UAP resolved cases as soon as they are released and approved for public publication,” it read.

The website’s disclosure may reflect increased efforts by the US government to be less secretive about UFO activity.

In a statement last week, Defense Department officials said the site would show how “committed” the Pentagon is to “transparency with the American people.”

It won’t take long after a prominent UFO whistleblower delivered an impressive testimony before Congress.

In July, former intelligence official David Grusch claimed the Pentagon was covering up evidence related to aliens.

He testified under oath that the Pentagon had firsthand experience or knowledge of secret government programs involving technology that is “non-human.”

“My testimony is based on information I received from individuals with a long track record of legitimacy,” he said.

“(They) have shared compelling evidence in the form of photography, official documentation and secret oral testimony against myself and many different colleagues.”

He also claimed that the US government has “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles, though he has provided no evidence to support that or any other claim.

However, his comments were condemned by the head of the Pentagon’s UFO office, Sean Kirkpatrick, a laser and materials physicist.

Kirkpatrick denounced Grusch’s claims of alleged secret programs that retrieve crashed UFOs and reverse engineer the technology as “offensive.”